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Since 1997 the New Zealand Post has sponsored the Children''s Book Festival and Children''s Book Awards which previously had been sponsored by AIM. The Festival is a nationwide celebration of books for children and young adults and promoting the importance and enjoyment of books and reading. The Awards are presented annually to provide recognition and reward for authors and illustrators of high quality New Zealand books for children and young adults. In 2004 the Awards were renamed The New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children & Young Adults.

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2010  Picture Book Shortlist
Cowshed Christmas Cowshed Christmas
Author: Joy Cowley

The classic Christmas story is given a New Zealand twist in this warm and evocative retelling, with gorgeous illustrations by Gavin Bishop.
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Old Hu-Hu Old Hu-Hu
Author: Kyle Mewburn
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Social Situations Death & Dying

Everyone loved Old Hu-Hu. But nobody loved him quite as much as little Hu-Hu-Tu. This is a beautiful story of death and the celebration of life, with powerful, evocative illustrations by Rachel Driscoll.
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Hū-Hū Koroheke Hū-Hū Koroheke
Author: Kyle Mewburn
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Social Situations Death & Dying
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

Everyone loved Old Hu-Hu. But nobody loved him quite as much as little Hu-Hu-Tu. Old Hu-Hu is a thoughtful tale of young Hu-Hu-Tu's search for understanding of what has happened to his beloved Old Hu-Hu, who flew all the ...
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Piggity-Wiggity Jiggity Jig Goes to Dad's Cafe Piggity-Wiggity Jiggity Jig Goes to Dad's Cafe
Author: Diana Neild
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

Piggity-Wiggity starred in his first story in 2008, in a charming tale about the length of his name. In that story we had an oblique introduction to his dad' s cafe (The Ravenous Snout) but this time Piggity-Wiggity is o ...
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The Wonky Donkey The Wonky Donkey
Author: Craig Smith

In this very funny, cumulative song, each page tells us something new about the donkey until we end up with a spunky, hanky-panky cranky stinky dinky lanky honky-tonky winky wonky donkey, which will have children in fits ...
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The Word Witch The Word Witch
Author: Margaret Mahy
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Language Arts
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Poetry

An illustrated selection of the poetry of Margaret Mahy, illustrated by David Elliot. Do you know about the Word Witch? Has she cast her spell over you? She can lasso with a limerick, haunt with a haiku and wrap you tigh ...
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 Nonfiction Shortlist
Ben and Mark Ben and Mark
Author: Christine Fernyhough & John Bougen

This is the true story of Ben and Mark Smith, aged eight and six, who live with their parents Richard and Sheri on Mount White Station, near Arthurs Pass, one of the biggest and most remote stations in the South Island.
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Dear Alison Dear Alison
Author: Simon Pollard
Category:History - World
Category:History - History General
Category:Literary Collections - Essays
Category:Literary Collections - General
Category:Politics & Government - Politics & Government Battles & Campaigns
Category:Politics & Government - Politics & Government Prisoners Of War

In 1942 with a notebook and pencil he had bought from a German guard, Dudley Muff started Alison's Book. Dudley was a prisoner of war in Germany and his niece Alison was four and living in Timaru. With humorous entries, ...
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E3 Call Home E3 Call Home
Author: Janet Hunt
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Animals
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Animals Birds

Every year in March thousands of godwits leave New Zealand and fly almost 17,000 kilometres to Alaska, where they mate and raise new godwits, and then turn around and fly all the way back to New Zealand. This is the stor ...
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Rangitoto Rangitoto
Author: Maria Gill
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Nature
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Nature Forests & Trees
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - People & Places
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - People & Places Australia & Oceania

Rangitito: Te toka tu moana /The Rock Standing in the Ocean tells the dramatic story of Auckland's most striking icon - its birth, the kaka bird's connection to Rangitoto, the imprint of humans on its fragile wildlife, a ...
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Willie Apiata, VC
Author: Paul Little
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - History
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - History Military & Wars
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Nature
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - People & Places
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - People & Places Asia
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - People & Places Australia & Oceania

Corporal Willie Apiata became the first New Zealander since the Second World War to be awarded the Commonwealth's highest military award for his actions with the NZ SAS in Afghanistan. From his early life in small town E ...
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 Junior Fiction Shortlist
Cry of the Taniwha Cry of the Taniwha
Author: Des Hunt
Category:Childrens Fiction - Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories

Sitting on the dark earth and staring up at him was a skull, the lower jaw below ground so Matt didn't have to cope with the thing grinning up at him. The empty eye sockets were scary enough...Matt Logan isn't looking fo ...
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Friends Friends
Author: Joy Cowley

A new book of stories about the daily adventures of the popular Snake and Lizard. Snake is elegant and calm, and a little self-centred; Lizard is exuberant and irrepressible. Even though they're opposites, they are good ...
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The Loblolly Boy The Loblolly Boy
Author: James Norcliffe
Category:Childrens Fiction - Fairy Tales & Folklore Country/Ethnic-General
Category:Childrens Fiction - Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic

To the boy called Red, it seems the most marvellous escape he could wish for: a gift that grants him more freedom than he ever believed possible - the chance to fly, to soar with the gulls, high over the tall brick walls ...
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The Mine's Afire! The Mine's Afire!
Author: Susan Battye & Thelma Eakin
Category:Childrens Fiction - Historical

This story is built around the Brunner Mine Disaster of 1896, the biggest industrial accident in New Zealand's history. Tommy Carter is a typical boy living in the West Coast mining community of Dobson in 1896. Most of t ...
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Sting Sting
Author: Raymond Huber
Category:Childrens Fiction - Animals

An action-packed adventure story about a young honey bee called Ziggy, who feels as though he is an outsider in his own hive. Sent by the Queen on a mission to discover how other bees live, Ziggy begins to unravel the cl ...
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 Young Adult Fiction Shortlist
Banquo's Son Banquo's Son
Author: Tania Roxborogh
Category:Fiction - General
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary

An epic tale of love, loss and revenge set amidst the turmoil of Scotland after Macbeth.
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The Beginner's Guide to Living The Beginner's Guide to Living
Author: Lia Hills
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Social Situations
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Social Situations Death & Dying
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Current Year Years 9-10

Seventeen-year-old Will is clever but he can't find answers to any of his questions after his mother dies in a car accident. His father seems to be drifting and his older brother stays away from home. And Will just can't ...
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The Crossing The Crossing
Author: Mandy Hager
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

The Crossing, the first of the 'Blood of the Lamb' trilogy, is set on a fictional Pacific island, approximately three generations after an apocalyptic event (a solar flare) in 2012 threw the world into complete chaos. At ...
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Brainjack Brainjack
Author: Brian Falkner
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

Sam, a teenage computer genius, takes up an invitation to join a secret online convention for the best hackers in the world, and finds himself thrown into a world of international high-risk security and double-crossing t ...
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The End of the Alphabet The End of the Alphabet
Author: Fleur Beale
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

Ruby Yarrow is a 14 year old who lives in a busy, loving, chaotic family with her mum, stepdad, brother and two little stepbrothers. Ruby feels a bit like a doormat - she has to help out in the family a lot while her bro ...
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